Damsel is an upcoming American dark fantasy film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and written by Dan Mazeau.
A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt. Thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon, she must rely on her wits and will to survive.
Storyline
EditIn this new fantasy film, a young woman who thinks she is being married to a perfect prince is thrown into a pit where she discovers she’s not going to be a princess after all, but a sacrifice to appease a bloodthirsty dragon. Trying to survive long enough until someone can save her — she soon realizes that no one is coming and this “damsel” must save herself.
Did you know
- TriviaIt was announced in Nov. 2020 that Millie Bobby Brown, hot off the success of the Netflix movie Enola Holmes, had signed on to executive produce and star in a new fantasy film titled Damsel for the streaming service. A source pegs the budget at around $60-$70 million.
- Damsel was announced in March 2020, with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo set as director, Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum set as producers, and the script written by Dan Mazeau.[3] In November 2020, Millie Bobby Brown was cast as Princess Elodie, along with being an executive producer for the film, with a projected budget of $60-70 million set for the film.[4][5]
The film started shooting in February 2022,[6] and lasted until July 1, 2022, in Tomar, a municipality in the Santarém District of Portugal. In April 2022, Angela Bassett joined the cast, as did Nick Robinson, Robin Wright, Ray Winstone, Brooke Carter, and Shohreh Aghdashloo
